the Sunday, Feb. 7, 1982 B'ham News article by Clark Stallworth concerning Forrest's escape from Selma.

Here are the words of a Confederate surgeon named Dr. Rob't Dandridge Jackson who was born in Perry County in 1830 and died in Dallas County in 1914.

Forrest with his escort and a number of men from various detachments
who rallied around him, escaped [Selma] over the Burnsville Road, not, however, without a collision with the enemy over the same road upon which Wilson's troops had advanced.

He was compelled to fight his way through, and it was here that his last personal encounter of the war took place, in which he slew a Federal calvaryman, who with rashness had endeavored to cut him down.

This was the 30th enemy that the personal prowess of Genl. Forrest has placed hors de combat in a hand to hand encounter since his first engagement at Sacremento in 1861. He closed his fighting career at Selma, having had 29 horses shot under him during the War.

I joined Genl. Forrest the day after the fight in Selma. He went to my house in Hamburg. After a short rest he went into the neighborhood of Marion Junction. I directed him to stop with my friend, Dr. Jones, while there who would give him good accomadations, which he did.